Many Things - LONG POST

i am so very tired. i'm not sure if i have the energy to run another 3 years.. and then somemore.. but i shall take a break today to blog!

firstly.. Venus won wimbledon! YAY!!! made up for the fact that Serena got injured and Nadal losing to Fed... but its encouraging to see that Nadal can compete with fed so well, even on grass! :) here are some happy pictures of the champions :)


other things i've done recently include meeting various pple. had a smashing time at settlers with gar, kat, sh, ra and alwyn. of course, managed to play tennis with various groups of pple as well!! glad tt i'm much better than when i first came back to sg.. :p

met up with yuan, cm and yihan for dinner at clarke quay.. saw this interesting band performance near the river.. haha, there was even a decent singer..

wanted to have dinner at pump room with the live band, but well, it was not to be. the silly place was booked for a function and i didn't know.. bah!! we ended up at The Tent, its some mongolian restaurant buffet thingie. the food's not bad.. its rather interesting in that u get to choose what you want in your dish, and mix about 20 over types of spices and sauces together, after which the chef will make you your own personalized dish from what you have chosen.. :) other than tt novelty, its not really that worth it in my opinion. oh well.. its the company tt matters :p


all the highly strange faces.. hmmm.


after tt, met up with ian and aud..

we went to the arena.. which is some live bar with live bands.. i felt the bands were quite good.. :) singing nice songs too, but well, yihan who only listens to screamy divas didn't like the rock-ish music there.. so we left after a while.. i guess it didn't help tt we were sitting so far forward tt it was near the bass speaker, hence deafening our ears. but i'd definitely wanna head back down again one day and check the place out..

well on sunday, i also met up with the aussie pple - wp, peiying, claire and nick. we went to clarke quay, again. went to waraku de pasta.. err.. jap fusion food. i didn't take any pictures.. haha. surprisingly! oh well. the food was not tt good for its price. its not bad, but i felt tt i paid way too much. coupled with the bad service and tt awful aircon, i'm pretty sure i wun go back again. the desserts were more ex and not even half as good as MOF's.. (its the same sort of jap style soft ice cream thingie). haha.. oops, too much abt the restaurant.. but anws, its good to see you guys.. had a great time catching up.. its gonna be a while b4 i see you again.. :(

today, managed to meet aaron for dinner. haha, really had quite a few important things to catch up to with him! haha. heh you, you are full of interesting surprises you know tt.. :p and for the dunno how many-th time, we met up again at coffee club, well, a different one from the usual though.. haha.

and finally, i met up with Mr Kat the teacher. haha, still lugging around his one million exercise books to mark. but the scripts are hilarious.. had an amusing time reading some of them. he had 2 complimentary tickets to the SYF Band Presentation.. which featured the top 3 bands from JC and Sec Sch.. it was fun fun fun. so nice to relive our nice memories from the past of being in a band.. its thrilling to hear all the soaring crescendos and to try to pick out all the individual instruments from the music. I was particularly impressed with CJC and Ang Mo Kio Sec.. well, their brass instruments were fantastic.. all the trumpet solos were great.. and CJC had a amazing saxophonist to boot as well. ahh, am too lazy to attempt to wreck my brain for more adjectives to describe the music.. music is music afterall - very difficult to put into words, otherwise, why listen rite?


thanks KAT!
and this is just a random photo i took one day during dinner when zp was trying to nip nippless. well, zp came up with tt. so lame. its supposed to rhyme with nicholas.